Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Red Hat Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Red Hat Linux over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the Kent region.

 Red Hat Linux
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank33-48
Rank change year-on-year
New entry-No change0
Matching contract IT job ads205
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent0.794 %-0.822 %
As % of the Operating Systems category5.556 %-3.049 %
Daily rates quoted101
Average daily rate£400-£350
UK excluding London average daily rate£375£325£398
% change year-on-year
+15.38 %-18.23 %
Hourly rates quoted002
Average hourly rate--£21.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£14.00£23.50£32.50
% change year-on-year
-40.42 %-27.69 %
Kent IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryAll Operating Systems
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
3678164
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent14.29 %22.16 %26.97 %
Daily rates quoted143025
Average daily rate£325£242£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+34.29 %-30.85 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£190£260
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£400£305£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£313£310£335
% change year-on-year
+0.800 %-7.460 %
Hourly rates quoted9535
Average hourly rate£11.00£16.50£18.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-33.33 %-12.00 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£15.00£17.50£18.00
% change year-on-year
-14.28 %-2.770 %
Red Hat Linux South EastRed Hat Linux
South East

Daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Red Hat Linux
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Red Hat Linux across the Kent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Kent Red Hat Linux Demand Trend

Red Hat Linux
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Red Hat Linux across the Kent region.

Kent Red Hat Linux Daily Rate Trend

Red Hat Linux
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Red Hat Linux across the Kent region.

Kent Red Hat Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Red Hat Linux
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Red Hat Linux within the Kent region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
TonbridgeNew entry-1£400-
Red Hat Linux South EastRed Hat Linux
South East

Red Hat Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing Red Hat Linux also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Red Hat Linux.

110 (100.00 %)Linux
110 (100.00 %)Red Hat
28 (80.00 %)Shell Script
28 (80.00 %)Oracle
37 (70.00 %)Bash shell
45 (50.00 %)Tripwire
45 (50.00 %)Dell
45 (50.00 %)Nagios
45 (50.00 %)CommVault
51 (10.00 %)Veritas
51 (10.00 %)HACMP
51 (10.00 %)Perl
51 (10.00 %)Finance
51 (10.00 %)Migration
51 (10.00 %)VMware
51 (10.00 %)Clustering
51 (10.00 %)NetBackup
51 (10.00 %)EMC
51 (10.00 %)ITIL Certification
51 (10.00 %)SAN
51 (10.00 %)DHCP
51 (10.00 %)TCP/IP
51 (10.00 %)DNS
51 (10.00 %)Cisco
51 (10.00 %)IBM
51 (10.00 %)Sun
51 (10.00 %)Sybase
51 (10.00 %)DB2
51 (10.00 %)Web Services
51 (10.00 %)ITIL

Red Hat Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing Red Hat Linux also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Red Hat Linux. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Kent IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11 (10.00 %)Web Services
11 (10.00 %)WebSphere
Kent IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11 (10.00 %)SAN
11 (10.00 %)DHCP
11 (10.00 %)TCP/IP
11 (10.00 %)DNS
Kent IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11 (10.00 %)DB2
Kent IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11 (10.00 %)Finance
11 (10.00 %)Banking
Kent IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
19 (90.00 %)Administrator
28 (80.00 %)Systems Administrator
28 (80.00 %)Linux Administrator
37 (70.00 %)Linux Systems Administrator
37 (70.00 %)Server Administrator
41 (10.00 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
41 (10.00 %)UNIX Administrator
Kent IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11 (10.00 %)HACMP
11 (10.00 %)Clustering
11 (10.00 %)LPAR
Kent IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
110 (100.00 %)Linux
21 (10.00 %)UNIX
21 (10.00 %)AIX
21 (10.00 %)Solaris
Kent IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11 (10.00 %)Migration
11 (10.00 %)ITIL
11 (10.00 %)Data Migration
Kent IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
18 (80.00 %)Shell Script
27 (70.00 %)Bash shell
31 (10.00 %)Perl
Kent IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11 (10.00 %)ITIL Certification
11 (10.00 %)SC Cleared
11 (10.00 %)Security Cleared
Kent IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (10.00 %)VMware Infrastructure
11 (10.00 %)Veritas Volume Manager
11 (10.00 %)Veritas Cluster Server
11 (10.00 %)SRDF
Kent IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
15 (50.00 %)Nagios
21 (10.00 %)NetBackup
Kent IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
110 (100.00 %)Red Hat
28 (80.00 %)Oracle
35 (50.00 %)Tripwire
35 (50.00 %)Dell
35 (50.00 %)CommVault
41 (10.00 %)Veritas
41 (10.00 %)VMware
41 (10.00 %)EMC
41 (10.00 %)Cisco
41 (10.00 %)IBM
41 (10.00 %)Sun
41 (10.00 %)Sybase
41 (10.00 %)Brocade